Republican and Democratic lawmakers are moving to regulate artificial intelligence at the state level despite President Donald Trump’s earlier warning against it. States are targeting concrete use cases such as chatbot interactions with children and how employers deploy AI systems, while earlier broad bias-accountability proposals were derailed by governors. The White House directed the Justice Department to create a task force aimed at challenging state AI laws deemed more than “minimally burdensome,” and the Commerce Department to catalog problematic regulations. The administration also framed a national policy framework urging Congress to preempt misaligned state requirements. Even so, the policy fight is intensifying in legislatures. A new bipartisan House draft faced criticism from both parties, underscoring that Congress is stalled even as state oversight expands.